Let us take a moment to remember those who were murdered because they were different:6 million Jews who were murdered including over one million children,5 million people who were murdered because they were Polish, or Slavic, or Roma, or homosexual, or communists or other people that the Nazis believed were undeserving of life.

Remember this story:

Martin Niemöller, a prominent Protestant pastor who opposed the Nazi regime. He spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. Germany, 1937.

Niemöller is perhaps best remembered for the quotation:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Jew.

An aspect dear to my heart: Kindertransport. Thousands of children sent from Nazi-occupied countries, separated from their parents in order to be safe. My father was one.

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

We had a lovely service at our synagogue on Sunday evening for Holocaust Remembrance Day, although one woman (who I didn't know) made me think of this board when she sternly told everyone that we should call it by its Hebrew name (Yom HaShoah).

I guess that could either go in Captain Know it All, or maybe in the Bean Dip thread, since that's what everyone did. And yes, we all know the Hebrew name, but we didn't use it because, well, we weren't speaking Hebrew.